LVI 2012: Law Via the Internet THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPEN ACCESS TO LAW
Conference Schedule as of Saturday, October 6, 2012. See www.lvi2012.org/schedule/conference-program/ for the most up to-date information.
Sunday, October 7 Session 1 Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell Law School LVI Business Meeting (Closed Session) 10:30 — 12:00 PM
2:00 — 5:00 PM Room G90-Track 1: The Promise and Reality of E- Max's Private Dining Room, Holiday Inn Ithaca Participation ...... E-Participation and Legal Information Institutes Opening Reception Moderator: Cynthia R. Farina, Cornell eRulemaking 5:00 — 7:00 PM Initiative, Cornell Law School Grand Ballroom, Holiday Inn Ithaca ...... Bedfellows: What Open Access Has to Do With Public Engagement, and Why Monday, October 8 Thomas R. Bruce, Director, Legal Information Institute [LII] at Cornell Law School Keynote Address Sponsored by Justia Feedback Loops and the Law Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts Kerry Anderson, Co-founder and Coordinator, African 9:00 — 10:00 AM Legal Information Institute Andrew Rens, SJD candidate, Duke Law School Monday Keynote Address: Richard Susskind ...... Richard Susskind, Scholar and Consultant, Society for Computers and Law Room G85-Track 2: The Business of (Open) Legal Publishing ...... Sponsored by Legitech
The Business of (Un)Open Legal Publishing: Lessons From the Commercial Publishers David Curle, Director and Lead Analyst, Outsell, Inc.
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Room 390-Track 3: Free Law and Government Policy Room G85-Track 2: The Business of (Open) Legal Publishing The Role of Legislatures and Others in Promoting Sponsored by Legitech Access to Law Gherardo Casini, Secretary to the Board of the Global When the Dog Catches the Car: CanLII’s Evolution from Center for ICT in Parliament, United Nations Department Free Law Concept to Cornerstone of Canadian Legal of Economic and Social Affairs Research to Potential Commercial Competitor Colin Lachance, President and CEO, Canadian Legal ...... Information Institute (CanLII)
Room 285-Track 4: Application Development for ...... Open Access and Engagement Sponsored by Legitech Room 390-Track 3: Free Law and Government Policy
Observing the Unobservables in the United States Reconsidering the Meaning of “Free Access to Legal Congress Information” After the Hague “Guiding Principles” Joshua Tauberer, Civic Hacker, GovTrack.us Graham Greenleaf, Professor of Law & Information Systems, University of New South Wales ...... Andrew Mowbray, Professor of Law and Information Room 290-Track 5: Data Organization and Legal Technology, University of Technology Informatics Philip Chung, Executive Director, AustLII
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Legal Search for Everyone: The Google Scholar Room 285-Track 4: Application Development for Approach Open Access and Engagement Anurag Acharya, Founding Engineer, Google Scholar Sponsored by Legitech
...... Wrangling Court Data on a National Level Lunch Michael Lissner, Co-founder and Lead Developer, Sponsored by Fastcase CourtListener Foyer, Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell Law School 12:00 — 1:00 PM Developing a Real Free Law Reporter as the Source of Court Opinions Optional Tour of Cornell Law School Library Elmer R. Masters, Director of Internet Development, Meet in Foyer, Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell Law School Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) 12:30 — 1:00 PM ......
...... Room 290-Track 5: Data Organization and Legal Session 2 Informatics Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell Law School Sponsored by Legitech 1:00 — 2:00 PM Citation t1/2: Evolution of Supreme Court of Canada Room G90-Track 1: The Promise and Reality of E- Decisions’ “Half-Life” 1900-2000 Participation Daniel Poulin, Professor, Faculty of Law of the University of Montreal Beyond Cats & Kardashians – How to Build Meaningful Philippe Grand'Maison, Student, University of Montreal Online Engagement Faculty of Law Steve Ressler, Founder and President, GovLoop.com ......
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Session 3 Room 285-Track 4: Application Development for Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell Law School Open Access and Engagement 2:30 — 3:30 PM Sponsored by Legitech
Room G90-Track 1: The Promise and Reality of E- Building a Free, Open Source Legal Citator Participation Rowyn McDonald, Graduate, UC Berkeley School of Information The Promise and Reality of E-Participation I Brian Carver, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley School Moderator: Dmitry Epstein, Cornell eRulemaking of Information Initiative, Cornell Law School Hypertext Markup in Bilingual Environment: The Participation 2.0: Online Engagement and Democracy Challenge for HKLII Paul Hirsch, Assistant Professor, SUNY College of Alex Fung, Senior Project Officer, Hong Kong Legal Environmental Science and Forestry / Maxwell School of Information Institute
Syracuse University ...... Tina Nabatchi, Assistant Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs, Maxwell School Room 290-Track 5: Data Organization and Legal of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University Informatics Sponsored by Legitech E-Government and Its Limitations: Assessing the True Demand Curve for Citizen Participation Searching without Search Terms: Mapping Concepts to David Karpf, Assistant Professor, George Washington Authorities in Law University Philip Chung, Executive Director, AustLII Andrew Mowbray, Professor of Law and Information ...... Technology, University of Technology, Sydney Room G85-Track 2: The Business of (Open) Legal Graham Greenleaf, Professor of Law & Information Publishing Systems, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Sponsored by Legitech Australia
...... The Capacity to Endure: Leveraging the Question of Sustainable Free Access in the New Zealand Context Donna Buckingham, Founder and Director, New Zealand Legal Information Institute (NZLII)
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Room 390-Track 3: Free Law and Government Policy
Legislative Information: A Legislative History Anne L. Washington, Assistant Professor, George Mason University
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Session 4 Room 285-Track 4: Application Development for Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell Law School Open Access and Engagement 4:00 — 5:00 PM Sponsored by Legitech
Room G90-Track 1: The Promise and Reality of E- Uniform Tools for Legal Referencing [citation needed] Participation Frank Bennett, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University, Japan The Promise and Reality of E-Participation II Moderator: Mary Newhart, Cornell eRulemaking Reflex 2: A Look at the Internals of an Automated Initiative, Cornell Law School Legislative Citator Marc-André Morissette, Director of Technology, Lexum
Under the Hood of Online Civic Participation: Lessons ...... from the Regulation Room Dmitry Epstein, Cornell eRulemaking Initiative, Room 290-Track 5: Data Organization and Legal Cornell Law School Informatics Jackeline Solivan, Cornell eRulemaking Initiative, Sponsored by Legitech Cornell Law School The Impact of Semantic Web Technologies on Legal The Promise and Peril of Using ICTs to Advance the Provisions Accessibility: Reasoning over Implicit Patterns Rule of Law and Access to Justice Enrico Francesconi, Researcher, CNR-ITTIG Rebecca Vernon, Affiliated Researcher, Cornell Ginevra Peruginelli, Legal Researcher, Institute of eRulemaking Initiative, Cornell Law School Theory and Techniques of Legal Information of CNR (ITTIG) ...... Room G85-Track 2: The Business of (Open) Legal Publishing LII@20 Gala Sponsored by Legitech Barton Hall, Cornell University 7:00 — 11:00 PM
Justia on Sustainable Business Models for Open Access ...... Timothy Stanley, Justia.com
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Room 390-Track 3: Free Law and Government Policy
Can We Trust What’s Online? Conclusions from the National Inventory of Legal Materials Tina S. Ching, Electronic Services Librarian, Seattle University School of Law Emily Feltren, Director of Government Relations, American Association of Law Libraries Judy Gaskell, Librarian of the Court (ret.), United States Supreme Court Library
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Tuesday, October 9 Room G85-Track 2: The Business of (Open) Legal Publishing Keynote Address Sponsored by Legitech
Sponsored by Justia Working with Free Access to Law Initiatives: Narratives Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts from Africa 9:00 — 10:00 AM Ann Muthoni Asugah, Assistant Editor and Team
Leader, Laws of Kenya Department at the National Tuesday Keynote Address: Clay Shirky Council for Law Reporting Clay Shirky, Writer, Consultant, and Teacher on New Bridget Osho, Coordinator, Sierra Leone Legal Technology and Social Media , New York University Information Institute (Sierra Lii) ...... Gugu Vilakati, Community Website Content Developer, AfricanLII Session 5 Jane Mugala, Coordinator, Uganda Legal Information Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell Law School Institute (ULII) 10:30 — 12:00 PM Mateyu Sisya, Coordinator, Malawi Legal Information
Institute (Malawilii) Room G90-Track 1: The Promise and Reality of E- Thelma Mary Julie, Documentation Officer and Participation Coordinator, SeyLII Ufuoma Lamikanra, Ag. Institute Librarian, Nigerian E-Participation: Cases from Around the World Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS), University Moderator: Dmitry Epstein, Cornell eRulemaking of Lagos Campus Initiative, Cornell Law School Kerry Anderson, Co-founder and Coordinator, African
Legal Information Institute Voice and Accountability: The effects of e-Government Mariya Badeva-Bright, Co-founder, African Legal on the Quality of Political Institutions Information Institute Joan-Josep Vallbé, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Barcelona ...... Núria Casellas, Assistant Professor of Jurisprudence, Room 390-Track 3: Free Law and Government Policy Autonomous University of Barcelona
Reporting the Law in Perennial Time Cases of Political Crowdsourcing in Morocco Frank Wagner, Reporter of Decisions (Ret.), Supreme Tarik Nesh-Nash, CEO, Software Centre Court of the United States
E-participation in Local Climate Initiatives: From ...... Collective Engagement to Measurable Impacts? Room 285-Track 4: Application Development for Georg Aichholzer, Principal Senior Researcher, Institute Open Access and Engagement of Technology Assessment (ITA), Austrian Academy of Sponsored by Legitech Sciences
...... Lawyering in the Digital Age: Technology Collaborations for Access to Justice Brian Donnelly, Director of Educational Technology and Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School Conrad Johnson, Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Law Students, Technology, 21st Century Law Practice and the Access to Justice Gap John Mayer, Executive Director, Center for Computer- Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)
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Room 290-Track 5: Data Organization and Legal Room 285-Track 4: Application Development for Informatics Open Access and Engagement Sponsored by Legitech Sponsored by Legitech
Mining Legal Gold: A Social Approach to Navigating a The Development of Translation Memory Database Multimedia Legal Archive System for Law Translation Jerry Goldman, Research Professor of Law, Chicago- Yasuhiro Sekine, System Engineer, Crestec Inc. Kent College of Law Katsuhiko Toyama, Associate Professor, Graduate Matt Gruhn, Technical Lead, Oyez Project School of Information Science, Nagoya University Yasuhiro Ogawa, Assistant Professor, Graduate School ...... of Information Science, Nagoya University Lunch Yoshiharu Matsuura, Director, Nagoya University Sponsored by Fastcase Library System Foyer, Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell Law School 12:00 — 1:00 PM Open Standards and Open Source Applications for a Sustainable Open Access to Parliamentary Activities: the Optional Tour of Cornell Law School Library Experiences and Applications of Africa i-Parliaments Meet in Foyer, Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell Law School Flavio Zeni, Chief Technical Adviser, Africa i- 12:30 — 1:00 PM Parliaments Action Plan Ashok Hariharan ...... Session 6 Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell Law School Room 290-Track 5: Data Organization and Legal 1:00 — 2:00 PM Informatics Sponsored by Legitech Room G90-Track 1: The Promise and Reality of E- Participation Making Legal Information Smart, Friendly and Inspiring Amy Huey-Ling Shee, Professor, College of Law, Creating Public Value through Government Innovation: National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan The Case of Open Government Yoshiharu Matsuura, Director, Nagoya University Theresa A. Pardo, Director of the Center for Technology Library System in Government, SUNY Albany Katsuhiko Toyama, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University ...... Tokuyasu Kakuta, Associate Professor, Graduate Room G85-Track 2: The Business of (Open) Legal School of Law, Nagoya University, Japan Publishing Yasuhiro Sekine, System Engineer, Crestec Inc. Sponsored by Legitech Enhancing the Visualization of Law Michael Curtotti, Deputy University Counsel (Acting), 3.5″ to 30″ Australian National University Legal Office Ivan Mokanov, Directeur exécutif / Executive Director, Lexum ......
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Room 390-Track 3: Free Law and Government Policy
Keeping your Eye on the Ball: Current Awareness for Policy-making Based on Free Legal Resources Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Director of Business Development, Lexum
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Session 7 Room 285-Track 4: Application Development for Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell Law School Open Access and Engagement 2:30 — 3:30 PM Sponsored by Legitech
Room G90-Track 1: The Promise and Reality of E- "Birds of a Feather" Panel Participation Thomas R. Bruce, Director and Co-Founder, Legal Information Institute Opening Government: Managing Complexity and Ed Walters, CEO, Fastcase Producing Public Value I Joshua Tauberer, Civic Hacker and Entrepreneur, Moderator: Jackeline Solivan, Cornell eRulemaking GovTrack.us Initiative, Cornell Law School Eric Mill, Developer, Sunlight Foundation Andrew Mowbray, Director, Australasian Legal Modeling an Open Government Information Polity Information Institute Natalie Helbig, Senior Program Associate, Center for Anurag Acharya, Founding Engineer, Google Scholar
Technology in Government, SUNY Albany ......
A Public Value Analysis Tool for Open Government Room 290-Track 5: Data Organization and Legal Planning Informatics Meghan Cook, Program Manager, Center for Sponsored by Legitech Technology in Government, SUNY Albany Crowdsourced Relational Law and the Redefinition of the ...... Public Space Room G85-Track 2: The Business of (Open) Legal Pompeu Casanovas, Director of Advanced Research, Publishing Professor of Philosophy and Sociology of Law, Sponsored by Legitech Autonomous University of Barcelona, School of Law Enric Plaza, Research Professor, Spanish Council for Organizational and Business Perspectives on Open Scientific Research (CSIC) Access to Information Oya Rieger, Associate University Librarian, Digital The Case for Curation: The Relevance of Digest and Scholarship Services, arXiv Program Director, Cornell Citator Results in Westlaw and Lexis University Library Susan Nevelow Mart, Library Director and Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado ...... Room 390-Track 3: Free Law and Government Policy
Putting the Law Online: Balancing Litigant Privacy and Access to the Law Brian Carver, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley School of Information
Implications of Publishing Legal Information in a Small Island State: Privacy v Open Justice James Lambert, Director of Services, Jersey Court Service Sue du Feu, Programme Director, Jersey Legal Information Board (JLIB)
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Session 8 Room 285-Track 4: Application Development for Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell Law School Open Access and Engagement 4:00 — 5:00 PM Sponsored by Legitech
Room G90-Track 1: The Promise and Reality of E- AfricanLII: A Community Portal for African Law Participation Mariya Badeva-Bright, Co-founder, African Legal Information Institute Opening Government: Managing Complexity and Producing Public Value II Digitising Australasian Legal History Moderator: Jackeline Solivan, Cornell eRulemaking Andrew Mowbray, Professor of Law and Information Initiative, Cornell Law School Technology, University of Technology, Sydney Graham Greenleaf, Professor of Law & Information Creating Open Government Ecosystems: A Research Systems, University of New South Wales, Sydney, and Development Agenda Australia Teresa Harrison, Faculty Fellow, Center for Technology Philip Chung, Executive Director, AustLII in Government, SUNY Albany Brent Salter
...... Closing Remarks Theresa A. Pardo, Director of the Center for Technology Room 290-Track 5: Data Organization and Legal in Government, SUNY Albany Informatics Sponsored by Legitech ......
Room G85-Track 2: The Business of (Open) Legal A Statutory “Time Machine” Publishing Lee Hollaar, Professor, the School of Computing at the Sponsored by Legitech University of Utah
The Challenges Facing Law via the Internet in Tanzania Search Engine Optimization and Implementation of Damas Daniel Ndumbaro, Founder and Chairman, Google Search Appliance in the Danish Legal Tanzania and Zanzibar Legal Information Institute Information System (TANZALII) Søren Nielsen, Head of Division, Legal Information, Department of Civil Affairs, Danish Ministry of Justice ...... Rasmus Lohals, Advanced Developer, Microsoft Room 390-Track 3: Free Law and Government Policy Solutions, NNIT
...... Universal Access to Public Legal Information by Persons with Disabilities: The Kenya Law Reports Case Study Closing Reception Ann Muthoni Asugah, Assistant Editor and Team Berger Atrium, Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell Law School Leader, Laws of Kenya Department at the National 5:00 — 7:00 PM
Council for Law Reporting ......